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* OnlySaneMan: Not exactly per se, but Ryan's overwhelming emotion is a combination of confusion and ''utter exasperation'' at any given moment. He'd be TooOldForThis except he's still a young man.

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* OnlySaneMan: Not exactly per se, but Ryan's overwhelming emotion is a combination of confusion and ''utter exasperation'' at any given moment. He'd be TooOldForThis except he's still a young man.
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* OnlySaneMan: Not exactly per se, but Ryan's overwhelming emotion is a combination of confusion and ''utter exasperation'' at any given moment. He'd be TooOldForThis except he's still a young man.
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* CloudCuckooLander: He's clearly not all there anymore, completely obsessed with horror movies and Emma Jaunt's work in particular, and has no problem, even seeming downright gleeful performing a crude autopsy on a Crusher ''with his bare hands''.

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* CloudCuckooLander: He's clearly not all there anymore, completely obsessed with horror movies and Emma Jaunt's work in particular, and has no problem, problem with, even seeming downright gleeful gleeful, performing a crude autopsy on a Crusher ''with his bare hands''.
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* TakeAThirdOption: Not exactly in gameplay, but his ''personality'' is always looking for a way out, a solution to whatever the problem is. Even finding out he's been bit has him reveal his bite to Michael and say "It's a secret, and we're going to figure it out...together."
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* DentedIron: Has a bad hip from decades of doing all his stunts. You actually have to power up his chairlift to get him down from the second floor as he can't risk jumping down[[InsurmountableWaistHeightFence without dislocating it.]]

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* DentedIron: Has a bad hip from decades of doing all his stunts. You actually have to power up his chairlift to get him down from the second floor as he can't risk jumping down[[InsurmountableWaistHeightFence down [[InsurmountableWaistHeightFence without dislocating it.]]
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* WackyParentSeriousChild: Being an adult in college, Jessica is a little older than the 'child' usually is in this trope, but still played straight enough in that she's a responsible young woman who's in medical school, while her mother is a devil-may-care alcoholic who spends much of her time in a neverending hangover with her musician boyfriend.


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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: A very serious version of the trope. Though Jessica does care deeply for her mother, she's only very opposed to her mother's irresponsible lifestyle with constant binges.


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* SleptThroughTheApocalypse: Played with. While Rikky and Roxanne knew about the zombies wandering around, and one has to clear them to even get in the house to talk to them, they decided to throw one last "Evacuation Party" before trying to make it out of HELL-A via the planes. However, they got so into the party that they were out for ''days'' after, long after the evacuation had ended.


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* WackyParentSeriousChild: Roxanne is a party animal whose current beau is a rock and roll musician with whom she spends her time either drinking or being hungover with, while her daughter Jessica is a mature, intelligent, and responsible medical student.
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* FriendlySniper: Thanks to his being a crack shot with a rifle, Curtis is very handy at sniping zombies from afar, which has kept him safe until the Slayer could reach him. He's also incredibly jovial and polite, even trying (unsuccessfully, though to little fault of his own) to protect a woman he saw who was being pursued by zombies. And he's consistently polite when asking the Slayer for help to get him down from the upper floor of his mansion.
* TheGunslinger: Memorabilia around Curtis's mansion implies that he was an actor in various films like Westerns, which typically have many characters like this, so it's likely he played a few. And he certainly carried the skills of one into his real life in the present.
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* StockBritishPhrases: Given that Jacob is a Brit in origin, he has a tendency to use British phrases throughout his dialogue.
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* MillionairePlayboy: Curtis lives in a very obviously wealthy lifestyle, going by his home and his very successful acting career, and claims that over the years said home has seen "a lot of loving".


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* NoStuntDouble: Implied by Curtis himself, as he claims his issues with his hip that require his use of the stairlift stem from him doing a lot of his own stunts.

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* AttackAttackAttack: His innate skills "Feral" and "Critical Gains" are both designed to encourage players to adopt a hyper-aggressive playstyle. The former skill grants Jacob a stackable damage buff every time he attacks an enemy in quick succession, while the latter skill ''restores'' Jacob's stamina any time he scores a crit, which ''also'' gets a damage buff.

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* AttackAttackAttack: His innate skills "Feral" and "Critical Gains" are both designed to encourage players to adopt a hyper-aggressive playstyle. The former skill grants Jacob a stackable damage buff every time he attacks an enemy in quick succession, while the latter skill ''restores'' Jacob's stamina any time he scores a crit, which ''also'' gets a damage buff. He also shares the skills "Serial Killer", "Hack and Slash" and "Group Therapy" with Dani, which allows them to gain buffs to their attack and attack speed as well as replenishing Stamina through killing.


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* ChainLethalityEnabler: Her unique skills grants her buffs as she kills. "Serial Killer" and "Group Therapy" not only buff her attack and attack speed when killing enemies but also allow her to replenish stamina.

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* NoFullNameGiven: The Slayers are only known by their first names, their last names are never revealed.

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* NoFullNameGiven: The Slayers are only known by their first names, their names. Their last names are never revealed.revealed. The director and narrative designer said in a Reddit AMA that this was a deliberate stylistic choice.
--> "What our Slayers are becoming - who they WILL be, is far more important than who they were. The old world is dying and with it, all the things that made us who we are."

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* {{Courier}}: The whole schtick of the EAT Courier variant, likely once a member of an in-universe online food service that now walks around carrying an insulated bag filled with Health replinshables for Slayers' convenience.


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* {{Backstab}}: One of his innate skills, giving him a moderate damage boost when attacking zombies from behind.

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* {{Backstab}}: BackStab: One of his innate skills, giving him a moderate damage boost when attacking zombies from behind.

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* AllThereInTheManual: Rodriguez's first name only appears in out-of-game sources like [[https://www.reddit.com/r/deadisland/comments/13y8l4d/story_and_lore_ama_with_dead_island_2_devs/ Dambuster's lore AMA on Reddit]].
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* CigarChomper: More of a cigarillo but clinging to a landing gear of a passenger jet while it's taking off while smoking it more than keeps the spirit of the trope.

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* CigarChomper: More of a cigarillo but clinging to a landing gear of a passenger jet while it's taking off while smoking and keeping it in your mouth more than keeps the spirit of the trope.

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* HiddenDepths: Despite his sycophantic tendencies he won at least one award for mentorship in a Hollywood career development program. And that's not even counting the fact that he managed to get from Bel-Air to his house in Beverly Hills, survive a siege of the zombies at his house, get to the studio, and take shelter in Emma's trailer even with a Slobber stalking him. [[spoiler: Sadly it didn't stop him from being bit but even then he managed to withstand the Autophage for a decent amount of time when most people turn in seconds.]]

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* DeathByDespair: [[spoiler: He seem to have actually been immune/resistant to the Autophage but he seemed to sure that he was going to turn that he gave up the will to live.]]
* HiddenDepths: Despite his sycophantic tendencies he won at least one award for mentorship in a Hollywood career development program. And that's not even counting the fact that he managed to get from Bel-Air to his house in Beverly Hills, survive a siege of the zombies at his house, get to the studio, and take shelter in Emma's trailer even with a Slobber stalking him. [[spoiler: Sadly it didn't stop him from being bit but even then he managed to withstand the Autophage for a decent amount of time hours when most people turn turned in seconds.]]



* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: She pulls a gun on you when you first meet her, but you have been bitten. However after you've been shown to not only be immune, but jumped into the fray to save her family, she warms up considerably. It might be Emma's mansion, but it's Andrea's house.



* GloryDays: A passing mention of Michael calling him a Has Been and not even denying it shows that Gods and Whiskey most likely isn't the most popular band anymore.
* TooDumbToLive: Inverted. They threw a major party and got too drunk to make it to the Evac point. However this actually saved their lives as the opening and later quests show that most of the evac points were over run. Plus they were so passed out that the infected have been ignoring them the past few days.

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* GloryDays: A passing mention of Michael calling him a Has Been and not even denying it shows that Gods and Whiskey most likely Whiskey isn't the most popular band anymore.
* TooDumbToLive: Inverted. They threw a major party and got too drunk to make it to the Evac point. However this This actually saved their lives as the opening and later quests show that most of the evac points were over run. Plus they were so passed out that the infected have been ignoring them the past few days.

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* WearingAFlagOnYourHead: Her prosthetic leg has an American flag pattern on it.

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* WearingAFlagOnYourHead: Her prosthetic leg has an American flag pattern on it.it, tying in neatly with her being a Paralympian hopeful.


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* BecomingTheMask: The intro starts off with him pretending to be a fire fighter to get onto the last evac plane. Over the course of the story he becomes the last real Emergency Responder Hell-A has.

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* BrokenBird: Subtle but listening to how awful her life was with her husband and Andrea's comments show that she's a woman that's been beaten down by the dark side of Hollywood.



* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: On the surface, Emma seems like any other spoiled actress who doesn't give a damn about anybody other than herself. However, she does occasionally show a softer side towards the people close to her, and her housekeeper Andrea remarks that Emma was always a nice girl, but slowly changed when she let her fame get to her head.

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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: On the surface, Emma seems like any other spoiled actress who doesn't give a damn about anybody other than herself. However, she does occasionally show a softer side towards the people close to her, and her housekeeper Andrea remarks that Emma was always a nice girl, but slowly changed when she let her fame get to her head. Not helped by her husband.



* HiddenDepths: Despite his sycophantic tendencies he won at least one award for mentorship in a Hollywood career development program. And that's not even counting the fact that he managed to get from Bel-Air to his house in Beverly Hills, survive a siege of the zombies at his house, get to the studio, and take shelter in Emma's trailer even with a Slobber stalking him. [[spoiler: Sadly it didn't stop him from being bit but even then he managed to withstand the Autophage for a decent amount of time when most people turn in seconds.]]
* NiceGuy: Interactions with Jessica Kwon, and Andrea the Housekeeper show that he was generally an affable guy even if the person wasn't someone that could help Emma's career. The worst he did was be rude to Rikky Rex calling him a has been, and well.... [[BrutalHonesty if anything he was being polite]]
* NiceToTheWaiter: Andrea, Emma's housekeeper is pissed when she thinks the Slayer and Sam drove him off and got him killed. Combine that with him winning a Mentorship award and Jessica having nothing but nice things to say about show that he wasn't two-faced when Emma wasn't in the room.



* DomesticAbuse: He shot Emma's dog for [[DisproportionateRetribution sleeping on a very expensive couch]]



* NiceJobBreakingItHero: 'Hero' is a major stretch, but she does this twofold. One is that by being a jerk to Becki and interupting her wedding she winds up causing Becki to stay around and mutate, which wipes out her men. And secondly by executing anyone she thinks is even infected, she killed at least a good handful of immune survivors.



* CoattailRidingRelative: There is no love lost when you have to put down his Zombified Nephew. Espeically as he [[DirtyCoward tried to throw Curtis' favorite housemaid into the path of the zombies to save his own skin.]]

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* CoattailRidingRelative: There is no love lost when you have to put down his Zombified Nephew. Espeically Especially as he [[DirtyCoward tried to throw Curtis' favorite housemaid into the path of the zombies to save his own skin.]]



[[folder:W.O. Rodriguez]]
The last uninfected and only human member of the military garrison at the Venice Beach quarantine shelter

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[[folder: Jessica Kwon]]
The last uninfected and only human member long suffering daughter of the military garrison at the Venice Beach quarantine shelterRoxanne Kwon



* ActionGirl: By virtue of being a woman in the military and managing to hold out during a zombpocalypse.
* DearJohnLetter: When her garrison began to lose hope that they could hold back the Autophage outbreak, many began to write these letters. Rodriguez had the better idea to digitally transcribe them and get them sent out to the wider world. That didn't pan out too well...
* FireKeepsItDead: Combined with BurnTheUndead, this is the point of her first side mission when she tasks the Slayer with igniting several mass burial sites near the base
* HeroicSacrifice: After the Slayer retrieves the USB containing her comrades' letters home, and fails to send them out via the comms due to the signal getting jammed, she implores them to take the letters with them while subtly indicating that when the containment measures in Hell-A completely collapse (and she's certain they will), she intends to literally go down in a blaze of glory to contain it.

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* ActionGirl: By virtue of being a woman in the military
*SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Wears glasses unlike her mother
and managing to hold out during a zombpocalypse.
* DearJohnLetter: When her garrison began to lose hope that they could hold back the Autophage outbreak, many began to write these letters. Rodriguez had the better idea to digitally transcribe them and get them sent out to the wider world. That didn't pan out too well...
* FireKeepsItDead: Combined with BurnTheUndead, this
is the point of her first side mission when she tasks the Slayer with igniting several mass burial sites near the base
* HeroicSacrifice: After the Slayer retrieves the USB containing her comrades' letters home, and fails to send them out via the comms due to the signal getting jammed, she implores them to take the letters with them while subtly indicating that when the containment measures in Hell-A completely collapse (and she's certain they will), she intends to literally go down in
a blaze of glory to contain it.medical student.



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The frontman for the band Gods and Whiskey and his current Girlfriend


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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Roxanne is still proud of Jessica even if she treats her as a buzzkill. She happily tells the Slayers that she's a medical student.
* DestructiveRomance: While the two of them do love each other and don't abuse each other, they're both quite obviously in a self destructive alcohol fueled spiral. Jessica laments that her mom used to be a rational intelligent woman before she met Rikky.
* GloryDays: A passing mention of Michael calling him a Has Been and not even denying it shows that Gods and Whiskey most likely isn't the most popular band anymore.
* TooDumbToLive: Inverted. They threw a major party and got too drunk to make it to the Evac point. However this actually saved their lives as the opening and later quests show that most of the evac points were over run. Plus they were so passed out that the infected have been ignoring them the past few days.
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The last uninfected and only human member of the military garrison at the Venice Beach quarantine shelter
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* ActionGirl: By virtue of being a woman in the military and managing to hold out during a zombpocalypse.
* DearJohnLetter: When her garrison began to lose hope that they could hold back the Autophage outbreak, many began to write these letters. Rodriguez had the better idea to digitally transcribe them and get them sent out to the wider world. That didn't pan out too well...
* FireKeepsItDead: Combined with BurnTheUndead, this is the point of her first side mission when she tasks the Slayer with igniting several mass burial sites near the base
* HeroicSacrifice: After the Slayer retrieves the USB containing her comrades' letters home, and fails to send them out via the comms due to the signal getting jammed, she implores them to take the letters with them while subtly indicating that when the containment measures in Hell-A completely collapse (and she's certain they will), she intends to literally go down in a blaze of glory to contain it.
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!!Zombies
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Freshly undead zombies.
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* CompleteMonster: Near the end started to chloroform evacuees and dissolved themed alive in a caustic bath that was meant for dead bodies.
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* CigarChomper: More of a cigarillo but clinging to a landing gear of a passenger jet while it's taking off while smoking it more than keeps the spirit of the trope.
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* TheDeterminator: All of the Slayers have the drive to get out of the City for their own reasons, even if they have to fight through every single last zombie to do so. [[spoiler: This is actually the last crucial step to survivng full Autophage exposure.]]


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* RefugeInAudacity: How all six of them got on the plane in the first place. Amy and Carla actually get on the plane with this in-universe as the military is actually impressed with how they managed to get to the plane on time.
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* CoattailRidingRelative: There is no love lost when you have to put down his Zombified Nephew. Espeically as he [[DirtyCoward tried to throw Curtis' favorite housemaid into the path of the zombies to save his own skin.]]
* DentedIron: Has a bad hip from decades of doing all his stunts. You actually have to power up his chairlift to get him down from the second floor as he can't risk jumping down[[InsurmountableWaistHeightFence without dislocating it.]]



* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Appearance wise, he heavily resembles Hugh Hefner and Vincent Price.

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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Appearance wise, he heavily resembles Hugh Hefner and Vincent Price.Price, with a dash of Charlton Heston with his skill with a rifle and a [[Film/SoylentGreen Soylent Green]] reference.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: On the surface, Emma seems like any other spoiled actress who doesn't give a damn about anybody other than herself. However, he she does occasionally show a softer side towards the people close to her, and her housekeeper Andrea remarks that Emma was always a nice girl, but slowly changed when she let her fame get to her head.

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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: On the surface, Emma seems like any other spoiled actress who doesn't give a damn about anybody other than herself. However, he she does occasionally show a softer side towards the people close to her, and her housekeeper Andrea remarks that Emma was always a nice girl, but slowly changed when she let her fame get to her head.
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* SelfDeprecation: One of her ambient dialogues has her waxing like this out loud, calling herself a "hack" and that she'll never amount to anything.
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A self-important painter sequestered in her home in BeverlymHills, electing to use the ongoing zompocalypse to perfect her craft and create her "magnum opus"... with the grisliest painting material she can get.

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A self-important painter sequestered in her home in BeverlymHills, Beverly Hills, electing to use the ongoing zompocalypse to perfect her craft and create her "magnum opus"... with the grisliest painting material she can get.
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Safe behind her gated home in Beverly Hills, thisself-styled painter elects to use the ongoing zompocalypse to perfect her craft and create her "magnum opus"... with the grisliest painting material she can get.

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Safe behind A self-important painter sequestered in her gated home in Beverly Hills, thisself-styled painter elects BeverlymHills, electing to use the ongoing zompocalypse to perfect her craft and create her "magnum opus"... with the grisliest painting material she can get.
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[[folder:Jimmy Montana]]
Star of "The Badge," a cop show that's been on for the last 9 years, and a survivor at the Serling Hotel hideout.

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Star of "The Badge," a cop show that's been on for
[folder:Francesca]]
Safe behind her gated home in Beverly Hills, thisself-styled painter elects to use
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* CelebritySurvivor: He's only the second actor you run into in the main questline who's survived the outbreak. Almost everyone else you find is either dead or mutated.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He's a slightly more stable Charlie Sheen with a goatee, with some elements of Frank Grillo thrown in.
* TheLoad: On your first visit to the Serling, you can find a list of everyone's chore assignments in the bar. Jimmy isn't on it.
* YouAreInCommandNow: After [[spoiler: Dr. Reed's plans involving the Slayer are revealed,]] the Slayer tells them to man up and be a leader. This makes him channel his TV character and start giving out orders.

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* CelebritySurvivor: He's only the second actor you run into CloudCuckoolander: An eccentric painter living all by herself in the main questline who's survived zombie-infested Beverly Hills, asking any "lucky" survivor passing through to help her perfect her paintings by bringing her a variety of zombie-related parts like ''infected flesh'', ''oversized arm bones'', and even ''mutating hearts'', all to achieve her masterpiece.
* MadArtist: One would have to be to consider making art out of
the outbreak. Almost everyone else you find is either dead or mutated.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He's a slightly more stable Charlie Sheen with a goatee, with some elements
remains of Frank Grillo thrown in.
* TheLoad: On your first visit to the Serling, you can find a list of everyone's chore assignments in the bar. Jimmy isn't on it.
* YouAreInCommandNow: After [[spoiler: Dr. Reed's plans involving the Slayer are revealed,]] the Slayer tells them to man up and be a leader. This makes him channel his TV character and start giving out orders.
zombified people.



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Lola's... bodyguards? Companions? Whatever they are, they share her status as one of the Numen and are dedicated to seeing her plans through.

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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He's a slightly more stable Charlie Sheen with a goatee, with some elements of Frank Grillo thrown in.
* TheLoad: On your first visit to the Serling, you can find a list of everyone's chore assignments in the bar. Jimmy isn't on it.
* YouAreInCommandNow: After [[spoiler: Dr. Reed's plans involving the Slayer are revealed,]] the Slayer tells them to man up and be a leader. This makes him channel his TV character and start giving out orders.
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Lola's... bodyguards? Companions? Whatever they are, they share her status as one of the Numen and are dedicated to seeing her plans through.
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* ICallItVera: His personal hunting rifle, named "Peggy", which he eventually gifts to the Slayer towards the end of the story as a Legendary weapon.

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